As you see there is almost 6h usage. I have managed even with 7. Just turn off the unused stuff on ios7 and set fetch mail on 30 mins that way you get 2 days stand by easy.
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7.0.6 Battery Life
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As you see there is almost 6h usage. I have managed even with 7. Just turn off the unused stuff on ios7 and set fetch mail on 30 mins that way you get 2 days stand by easy.
I like having my emails come in right away, but I'll start looking up some options.
It's much more than that. It really comes down to usage (not the actual numbers but how often you actually use the phone and for how long).
My 2nd battery test since I did a restore of 7.0.6
This time my phone did not shut down early like I posted above at 9%, this time I was able to use my phone down to 1% and this was the results:
Usage: 7 hrs 12 mins
Standy: 15 hrs 10 mins
still using the phone like normal, I think it's pretty decent battery.
Let's hope 7.1 update doesn't mess up the battery.
This time my phone did not shut down early like I posted above at 9%, this time I was able to use my phone down to 1% and this was the results:
Usage: 7 hrs 12 mins
Standy: 15 hrs 10 mins
still using the phone like normal, I think it's pretty decent battery.
Let's hope 7.1 update doesn't mess up the battery.
This.
I reach that usage in half a day ....
I'm very happy with my iPhone 5s battery life, but I usually can reach 5-8 hrs of usage time (it depends on the network coverage) in 20-24 hrs standby.
No problems so far on my 1st gen Mini or iPhone 5, but after my experience with the last 4s I'm holding off updating its replacement until 7.1 is released though as a precaution.
I get between five and six hours' usage on my 7 month old iPhone 5. With iOS6 I was getting between eight and nine hours. The drop in battery life happened immediately upon installing iOS7 and despite numerous clean installs and switching off certain settings, the extremely poor battery life has raged on.
People have said that it must be the battery itself but how on earth could it suddenly become faulty upon the installation of iOS7? I just see that as way too much of a coincidence.
People have said that it must be the battery itself but how on earth could it suddenly become faulty upon the installation of iOS7? I just see that as way too much of a coincidence.
To troubleshoot a few things:
- the first day on a new iOS version in my experience was always the worst. I guess iOS does things in the background after a new install
- did your using pattern changed in any way? Installed a new app or use one more frequently, get in places where the signal is worse, use less wifi or use 3G instead of LTE (LTE is more power efficient on the iPhone)
- did you check your background apps? I unchecked all apps I don't need to have background capabilities there, but I actually don't know how big the difference is
- do you experience your phone getting warm while using a certain app, without loading your phone (the battery always gets warm then)?
I also have an iPhone 5 and get round about 7 hours of usage time per day, which is more or less the same I've got normally on iOS 6.
For the first time in any Apple iPhone I have owned, I am getting terrible battery life. I have a 4S, and the other day it drained both its internal battery and a Mophy juice pack external battery in about 6 hours (with WiFi off, no less). It seems better now. Of course we all have to be careful about drawing any conclusions about iOS - changes in battery life can occur when apps are updated at about the same time as iOS.
I live in the same house, am on the same network and have the same usage patterns. No new apps installed since iOS6 and I'm pretty sure all of the ones I have are updated to iOS7 specs. I have background refresh switched off, parallax off, find my phone off, all the other bits and bobs switched off and have done I think nine clean installs over the past five months. My phone doesn't overheat or display any untoward behaviour *apart* from the massive loss of battery stamina.
Yeah same my battery life was insane on iOS 6 - I was getting about 10 hours of usage and iOS 7 has about halved that.
12 hrs usage ? I have difficulties in trust your numbers ....
And those colored network dots are suspicious ....
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Ars Technica demonstrated that drop in battery life on iPhone 5 when iOS 7 was released.
I experienced the same behavior with my iPhone 5. Now with my iPhone 5s I'm over the eight hrs again ....
It often really does come down to how you use the phone and where.
In my normal use between home and work I generally get about 6-7 hours of usage and about 18 hours of standby before the battery is almost gone (generally below 10% if not close to basically being at 0%) and I plug it in for the night.
However, I was working from home recently and basically the phone stayed around the house all day long, essentially on the same WiFi signal all the time and more or less with the same cellular/LTE signal as it didn't really fluctuate around the house. I also used the phone a little less than usual given that I was around a computer and not on the go as much as usual.
At the end of the day before plugging in to charge for the night, I had 7 hours of usage and 23 hours of standby, and still had 41% of the battery left.
Fully agree and have also had the same battery stats from a normal day at work & one at home all day.
People who are claiming poor battery life on the i5 with iOS7 are usually doing so with the same usage patterns they've always had. I'm on the same network, live in the same house and work at the same office. Signal strength is out of the equation because it hasn't changed between iOS6 and iOS7. Neither has my usage pattern. All that has changed is the operating system.
Now I'm well aware that many handsets don't seem to have been affected, but mine has and so has every single person that I know who owns an i5. iOS7 seems incompatible with the iPhone 5 and Apple shouldn't allow it!! Not only am I experiencing poor battery life but my battery is being charged a heck of a lot more, which will bring with it even worse battery life in record time. This thing has to last me 24 months and I have only owned it for less than 7 months, yet the battery life is worse than my 3 year old iPhone 4 on the original battery.
I don't doubt that various phones might truly have some battery issues some of which are related in some way to iOS 7 (even if just coincidentally). However, for example, in my case I deal with two iPhone 5 phones on a daily basis and their battery life hasn't really changed one way or another through iOS 6 and iOS 7 updates.
Ars Technica pointed out a very noticeable drop in iPhone 5 battery life with iOS 7 .... And only with iPhone 5
He probably just listened to a lot of music. You can get probably close to 2 days usage listening to music.
I had the same identical drop, even after a full reset without any app installed ...
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It could be, but what is the meaning of post such an irrealistic result ?
And that doesn't explain the colored signal strength dots ...